[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1872 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1872

To require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary 
   of Veterans Affairs, to develop and implement a secure electronic 
   method of forwarding the Certificate of Release or Discharge from 
 Active Duty (DD Form 214) to the appropriate office of the Department 
 of Veterans Affairs for the State or other locality in which a member 
of the Armed Forces will first reside after the discharge or release of 
                      the member from active duty.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 2, 2009

 Mr. Space (for himself, Mr. Filner, Mr. Walz, and Mr. Nye) introduced 
   the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary 
   of Veterans Affairs, to develop and implement a secure electronic 
   method of forwarding the Certificate of Release or Discharge from 
 Active Duty (DD Form 214) to the appropriate office of the Department 
 of Veterans Affairs for the State or other locality in which a member 
of the Armed Forces will first reside after the discharge or release of 
                      the member from active duty.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Secure Electronic Military 
Separation Act''.

SEC. 2. SECURE ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF CERTIFICATE OF RELEASE OR 
              DISCHARGE FROM ACTIVE DUTY (DD FORM 214).

    Section 596 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2008 (Public Law 110-181; 10 U.S.C. 1168 note) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a) Modification Required.--'' before 
        ``The Secretary of Defense''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Secure Method of Electronic Delivery.--
            ``(1) Development and implementation.--The Secretary of 
        Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Veterans 
        Affairs, shall develop and implement a secure electronic method 
        of forwarding the DD Form 214 to the appropriate office 
        specified in subsection (a)(2). The Secretaries shall ensure 
        that the method permits such offices to access the forms 
        electronically using current computer operating systems.
            ``(2) Uniform application.--The secure electronic method of 
        forwarding DD Forms 214 developed under paragraph (1) shall be 
        implemented uniformly by each of the military departments.''.
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